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gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

putting aside my increasing desire to never post anywhere ever again, one of the reasons I haven't committed to this place to the degree some might like is that I have a ton of JP contacts on twitter that I know are going to completely retreat from public view if and when the site becomes completely untenable, including folk I have professional ties with (some stretching back years) whose only reliable point of contact is their twitter inbox, so even a much-compromised version of that dump is still worth clinging to so long as it's able to continue consolidating all these people I'd otherwise lose track of

so yeah, hell if I know what I'm gonna do now that JP folk are being banned en masse for no goddamn reason (do Not say "start checking your emails")

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renkotsuban
@renkotsuban

This is me trying to figure out how the heck I am going to contact enough Japanese indie devs to put together a whole monthly zine, if the only reliable way to get in touch with 99.9999% of them is through Twitter DMs 😩

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renkotsuban
@renkotsuban

Yep, saw tons of that going around 😓 The one we've seen the most is that you'll get banned if you message someone you're not already mutuals with, but who knows if that is true or not. The other fun thing is that the Twitter mobile app hides the message icon on people's profiles now, which means you need to manually type in their username into a DM to message them. And they might not want to open your message because they could get banned! This is all super fun, eh!!

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-ZAN
@-ZAN

Another person with a large web of Twitter contacts has noticed their mutuals dropping from the service but, importantly, not setting up anywhere else. Beyond the "public square" feel, one of the things that kept Twitter humming was the critical mass of people you know on the platform.

I think the fact that none of the alternatives have hit critical mass yet is one of the reasons there hasn't yet been a surjective migration off of Twitter, but given that Musk keeps being actively hostile to the users of his website, what will happen when Twitter itself loses critical mass?

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gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

From what I'm seeing, the discussions among JP folk tend to be about which services to retreat back to, rather than entertaining new options, but the people hardest pushing that line are the people who never stopped using Facebook or mixi or whatever, and the people for which Twitter was a last point of refuge already made up their mind about the alternatives a long time ago, so that critical mass isn't really possible elsewhere IMO.

Aside from people who have or are liable to just ghost completely, one of the other issues is people choosing to consolidate their online presence around paywalled/monetised services—I don't begrudge anyone for doing it but people only have so much bandwidth for newsletters and subs and everything else, and I don't think a rush towards this level of atomisation helps anybody.

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